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A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!

A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

Be open, and God starts pouring into you like wine from every nook and corner of existence. Then wherever you look, you find God. Then whatsoever you touch, you find God. Then whatsoever you drink and eat, you find God. And when God pours from everywhere, then life is a celebration.

At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Christmas is such a feel-good time of year, and despite what's going on, it's about love and it's about celebration and just the holidays in general. It's like, why can't we carry that through the rest of the year? Why does it have to be just now? Let's make the entire year a season of love.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

Bread is a celebration.

Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in your being, just rejoicing in this moment, this tremendous universe. You had not asked for it, you have simply been given a universe which is infinite and eternal. You have not asked and you have been given a consciousness which is eternal, which can become festive. If you allow it, it can make you the sanest, the most graceful, the most loving.

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

Good food is a celebration of life.

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.